Top national prospect visiting FSU this week
Florida State coaches picked up their seventh oral commitment on Monday afternoon when dual-threat quarterback D'Vontrey Richardson gave them his word after touring campus.

A federal judge in California has refused to grant class-action status to a lawsuit concerning the marketing and sale of college athletes' photographs through school athletics websites that involves CBS Interactive, a division of CBS Corp.

Gene Chizik built one of the nation's top defenses as an Auburn assistant, worked as defensive coordinator during Texas' national-championship run then returned to the Tigers to win another title as head coach.

Sophomore safety C.J. Reavis lost his appeal to a Virginia Tech student conduct decision and remains dismissed from the university, an outcome his lawyer blasted as “completely unwarranted” and a “tragic decision.”

Arnold Palmer got the loudest cheers and stole all the headlines at one final major championship. "The King" of seven Grand Slam events and five more as a senior, Palmer bid an emotional farewell Friday to his 50-year major championship career.

The presence of the Florida State Seminoles also looms large. Head coach Leonard Hamilton has been a terror on the recruiting trail as of late, which has him looking at a potentially loaded roster in 2016-2017.

Citing fatigue, Florida State freshman All-American Walter Dix has opted not to accept his place on the U.S. 4x100-meter relay team for next week's World Track and Field Championships, Seminoles coach Bob
Braman said Thursday.

Michigan will retire six jersey numbers in a ceremony at the Ohio State game Nov. 28, ending the school's "legends program" in which players were given the same numbers as some of the team's all-time greats.

In 1991, Florida State quarterback Casey Weldon finished runner up to Desmond Howard in the voting for the Heisman Trophy. His son, 2017 QB Cade Weldon (6-2 190) of Tampa, is considering playing for Steve Spurrier.

Tennessee Coach Phillip Fulmer made his long-anticipated return to Alabama on Wednesday to attend the Southeastern Conference football media days, a year after he stayed away from the event because of a
messy legal matter.

The Tampa Bay Lightning signed coach John Tortorella and general manager Jay Feaster to long-term contract extensions Tuesday, keeping
together the duo that helped guide the franchise to its first Stanley Cup title in 2004.

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One of college football’s biggest teams has expressed an interest in playing in Ireland
The head coach of the Clemson Tigers — former home to NFL players such as CJ Spiller, Sammy Watkins and Byron Maxwell — has said it would be a “great experience” to bring his team to Ireland and follow in the footsteps of the likes of Notre Dame and Penn State.

Tight end Keith Heitzman - one of several fifth-year players to leave Michigan after Jim Harbaugh replaced Brady Hoke - says he just wasn't interested in the new coach's plan to have them try out for their jobs in spring practice.

Knocked off his board by an attacking shark, three-time world champion Mick Fanning punched the creature before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa on Sunday.

When executives at the Trek Bicycle Corp. signed a contract with Lance Armstrong in 1998, they were betting the public would see the cyclist recovering from testicular cancer as a human interest story.

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The lawyer for Florida State linebacker Ernie Sims said he expects charges to be dropped against his client after Sims' arrest July 6 following an altercation in a residence-hall parking lot with his
girlfriend.

Florida State track and field star Rafeeq Curry has struck a deal with Texas prosecutors that will "appropriately" resolve his misdemeanor assault charge stemming from a brawl after the 2004 NCAA championship meet, his attorney told the St. Petersburg Times.

Saunders the leading candidate to coach Eastern Conference champs
All indications are that Larry Brown's days as the Detroit Pistons' coach are over. The Pistons worked on the final details of a buyout Monday, but made no announcement.

College football season is six weeks away and workouts start early next month, but a coaches contract dispute at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities threatens to sideline all fall sports -- potentially paralyzing the Division 2 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

Tiger Woods is Open champion for the second time. His mastery of the Old Course at St Andrews and of the world's leading players was an almost exact repeat of his performance here in the Millennium Open.

Clemson defensive end Charles Bennett knew he and his teammates were wrong for what they did in their season-ending brawl with South Carolina last fall. But he didn't understand the impact of their
actions until recently.

UNC athletics director says there will be no formal investigation of the Tar Heels' sports programs, says he is confident no departing Tar Heel has received gifts since Williams returned to his alma mater. (Just some bogus classes instead.)

The number of academic fraud cases in recent years, along with the new,NCAA academic reform plan, has led to every school's NCAA faculty representative becoming more and more a position of attention,
importance.